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TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 351,571, dated October 26, 1886.

Serial No. 208,614. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUDoLPH BLANKEN BURG, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Tags or Tick fis for Merchandise, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tags or ticketsspecially intended for application to skeins or hanks of yarn, the object of my invention being to so construct such a tag or ticket that it can be readily applied to or removed from the skein or hank, will have no tendency to tilt or tip up edgewiseand will possess such strength that it cannot be easily torn from the skein or hank. I p

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a view of a skein or hank of yarn with my improved tag or ticket applied thereto; Fig. 2, a perspective View showing one plan of applying the tag; Fig. 3, a perspective View showing another plan of applying the same, and Fig. 4 a face view of the tag.

The tag or ticket consists of astrip, A, preferably of card-boarder strong paper, the strip shown in the drawings being of rectangular form, although it should beunderstood that the shape and dimensions of the ticket may be varied, as circumstances may suggest.

Near one end of the ticket are formed openingstnone -on each side of the center of the ticket, and from these openings to another smaller central opening, b, some distance below the same, extend incisions d d, the openings and incisions thus forming at one end of the tag a central tongue, B, and at the base of the tongue shoulders bb.

The tag is intended to be applied to a hank 1 or skein of yarn, as shown, for instance, in

0 Fig. 1, and in applying the tag a few strands of yarn are separated from the skein or hank,

and the point of the tongue B is either elevated, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to permit the strands to be drawn beneath the tongue, or the point of the tongue is depressed so as to permit the strands to be drawn over said tongue, as shown in Fig. 3, the strands finally occupying the openings (1 a and being drawn straight across the base of the tongue, as shown in Fig. 1, the tongue resuming its normal position-that is to say, in the same plane as the body of the card. The shoulders I) I) prevent the tag from being detached from the strands. All that portion of the end of the card between the two eyes a a is available to resist the tearing of thetag from the skein or hank; consequently the tag is much stronger and much less liable to be torn from the skein than a tag having a single opening with incision running to the edge of the card. Moreover, the formation of the central tongue at the end of the tag, as shown, insures the lying of the tag flat, and obviates any tendency of the tag to turn or tilt up on edge when the strands to which the tag is applied are subjected to strain.

I claim as my invention A tag having a tongue formed from the internal portion thereof, and provided with shoulders at the opposite ends of the base or shank of the tongue, all substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. GoNNEE, HARRY SMITH. 

